Google wants to join Android and Apple gamers

Google announced at this week’s Game Developers Conference that it is expanding services it provides to mobile game developers so they can create titles that allow owners of Android mobile devices to directly play with friends who own Apple’s iPhones and iPads.

“We’re expanding multiplayer to support iOS, bringing turn-based and real-time multiplayer capabilities to both Android and iOS,” Greg Hartrell of Google Play Games team said in a blog post.

The cross-platform extension, one of several new features Google is rolling out this week, is an interesting move that should help the search giant spread its reach further into the lucrative mobile game market.